As the group thought on what to do on the food situation, Naruto suddenly perked up and went over to Mikoto and whispered something in her ear in a quick, hushed tone.
When she pulled away from him, the Uchiha woman grinned michviously and put her red Hannya mask back on and then vanished in her Kamui jutsu.
"Naruto...what did you just do?" Kakashi asked.
The teen only smiled, "Wait for it..."
Thirty minutes later, Mikoto returned. "Got everything you asked for, Naruto-Kun." she said before the Kamui started again and a munber of eatables came from the ripple in space. From the looks of it, Mikoto had raided a grocery store.
However, what really was shocking was that along with all the food, to everyone's surprise save for Naruto, there was also a teenaged girl.
The girl had lightly tanned skin, most likely due to the amount of time she trained outdoors, much like his own. Her long, chocolate brown hair was done up in a practical style of two Chinese-style chignon buns, one on either side of her head with them parted by a space between them in the middle so that they resembled the ears of a panda or a cartoon mouse to keep it out her face when she was fighting, and her forehead protector was around her forehead with the spiral arrow symbol of the Leaf right in the center of her forehead and framed underneath a fringe she had of a few strands of hair being used like bangs. Her eyes were the same shade of brown as her a long-sleeved white blouse with a high collar and red fastener and edges paired with similarly coloured, puffy pants that look like a hakama, with the exposed parts of her legs near the waist covered in bandages. She wore brown fingerless gloves, with her forehead protector having switched to the same color and her shinobi sandals having been replaced by black, open-toed sandals with low heels, and the shoes extend to the lower ankles; everything was a reference to the Chinese culture. She held a giant scroll strapped on her back.
Wadding through the food, Naruto went over to her and helped her up and lead her over to Ruby.
"Uhh...huh? Naruto? What happened? Where are we?" She asked, apparently disorented and shaking it off after a few moments and recognized him.
Naruto smirked, "Tell you later. For now, there's someone here that wants to meet you, Tenten." He told the newcomer.
"YOU'RE Tenten?!" Ruby squealed, stars in her eyes.
Seeing how exstatic the red-and-black themed girl was, Tenten looked from Ruby to Naruto, clearly confused.
"Tenten, this is Ruby. Fellow armament connoisseur." Naruto introduced, smirking.
Tenten blinked, then beamed at Ruby and was soon happily chatting away with the young Rose about weapon specifics, Ruby doing likewise with sheer gusto, then she hugged Tenten, "Super bestie better than the restie! Armament connoisseurs forever!" Ruby cheered.
"Sisterhood of the ammo fanatics..." Naruto chuckled, shaking his head as he looked on the two.
"How did you...With how socially akward my sister is...?" Yang gawked.
Naruto shrugged, "Just good with people. Know these two would bond over love of weapons. Everyone knows common ground helps with getting to know people, after all." he said as he formed a group of clones and had them put the results of Mikoto's shopping trip away. As he looked around, feeling pleased, he caught sight of Weiss glaring at Ruby and Tenten and went over to the girl.
Sheesh...that was a lot on negitivity coming off of her. In fact...based off what his empathic abilities from being Kurama's host could tell, it felt like...
"Weiss, you're not...jealous, are you?" Naruto asked.
The aformentioned girl jumped and stared at the blond in shock. "W-w-what?! I'm...no, of corse not! Why would I be jealous that Ruby's...replaced...me...as...her..." the heiress trailed off as she grit her teeth and started grinding them.
Naruto rose a brow, "Uh-huh...sure you're not jealous of Tenten potenitally replacing you as Ruby's "Super bestie better than the restie", Weiss." he said with a knowing smirk.
The red-faced glare she gave him was well worth it and served to amuse the others.
"Oh yes...there was one more thing. On my way back here, I met someone that was interested in joining our reading group." Mikoto said.
At that, every one turned to her as she released a will-o-the-whisp from her kamui this time and energy, which the shinobi present recognized as pure chakra, struck it as it floated in the air. As it did so, the spectral flame changed. Growing bigger and shifting, sprouting limbs and changing into a humanoide shape before in a flash like lightning, where the whisp had been was a young woman
She looked about Kushina's age and was dressed in a white hooded cloak that covered a white high-neck décolletage blouse. Her outfit made use of a black and red skirt, an overbust corset while she wore black belt bordered in red. She had on thigh-high stockings that reached to a few inches below the hem of her skirt, decorated by an image of a long-stemmed rose. Her black boots containing four straps and buckles apiece. She had silver eyes, a pale complexion, and black and red hair worn long.
While many of the room's occupants had no idea who this person was, the minute Ruby and Yang had seen the cloak, they felt their hearts clench and tears form in their eyes.
To Ruby she was everything she had ever aspired to be, the woman who had read her the bedtime stories she so adored, the woman who had taught her what it meant to not only be a Huntress, but a good person.
To Yang she was the woman who, despite not having given birth to her, had taken her in and raised her as her own flesh and blood. She was Super-Mom: baker of cookies and slayer of giant monsters.
As silver eyes flickered open, she smiled upon seeing her two beautiful daughters already rushing towards her.
Engulfing the two young teens in a hug, the three began to cry. Tears long held in, tears of words not said and tears of an immense joy flowed freely.
Ruby and Yang were reunited with their mother, Summer Rose.
The others were shocked, but then Naruto smiled. He enjoyed moments like this. He had his, now it was obvious Yang and Ruby were getting their own.
Naruto looked at Mikoto and nodded, a supportive smile on his face.
As for the others, they smiled as they watched Ruby and Yang have their moment of reunion.
For Weiss, she mused thoughts of what her life would've been like without the Schnee name being so significant. She couldn't help but imagine it to be much more enjoyable, but she knew that she wouldn't have met her friends if her life had been any different. And to be honest...she saw Ruby, Yang and Blake as her family more that she did her biological one with the exception of her older sister Winter.
For Blake, it reminded her of her parents back home and how they had always loved and supported her before she ran off with Adam and the White Fang. Guilt and shame filled her, and she mentally made plans to finally get back in touch with her family, if for no other reason than to say how much they meant to her.
"So girls...the one in the mask and white outfit told me what was going on. So natrually, I couldn't pass up the chance to be with my daughters again." Summer smiled.
Ruby started crying and Yang tightened her grip on the woman that she had called a mother to her.
"You set this up, didn't you?" Tenten asked, going over to Naruto.
"You yes, her no." He said, not taking his eyes from the reunion.
Kushina went over to the Uchiha and gave her a low five, smiling at Mikoto, who returned it. "Used your status as a onryō to pop into the afterlife and get her for Ruby and Yang, eh? Now that's something the Mikoto Uchiha I know would pull..." the redhead praised.
Summer smiled as she gentley, albet reluctantly, pulled away from Ruby and Yang, "So girls...see you've grown. Been taking care of one another?"
"Of course!" the siblings replied in unison.
"And who are your friends?" Summer inquired.
"Oh! That's Weiss!" Ruby said, pointing to her partner.
"Blake's the one in black with the cat ears!" Yang said.
"Then there's Jaune! And Ren!" Ruby introduced.
"Not to mention Pyrrha and Nora!" Yang supplied.
At that, said people let out welcomes as they were each pointed out. Once they all were, attention shifted to the Konoha group.
"Name's Naruto." The whiskered teen supplied.
"Tenten." The weapon mistress smiled.
Kushina stood, went over to Summer, and exstended a hand, "Kushina's Uzumaki, Naruto's mother. Pleasure to meet you."
"Likewise." The white-cloaked woman supplied.
"Minato, Kushina's husband." The eldest male blond in the reading group said, with a smile and nod.
"Yo, Name's Kakashi Hatake." the masked man saild plesently.
Summer smiled, "Nice to meet you all, and already told me who she was when she came across me in the afterlife before bringing me here to join the reading group, so no need for introduction repeats. Though how she got into Remnent's afterlife, I guess has to do with that transport ability."
The Remnent group squeezed over, making room for Ruby and Yang as Summer sat between them.
"Now...where's this book? Since I'm here, I got this." Summer said.
Grinning, Jaune passed the book to the "White Rose", letting her know they were on the start of chapter seven.